{"id":520285,"date":"2010-04-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/needle_less_vaccinations"},"modified":"2010-04-07T14:41:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T18:41:44","slug":"needle-less-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520285","title":{"rendered":"Needle-less Vaccinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"needle\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/images\/needle10.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" \/>Needles are hands down one of the things I&#8217;m scared of most in the world. Anytime I need to get a shot or have blood drawn there&#8217;s a 50-50 chance I&#8217;ll pass out. I get all lightheaded and start to hyperventilate. It&#8217;s really not a pretty picture.<\/p>\n<p>So needless to say, the news that scientists figured out a way to give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/news\/fullstory_97215.html\" title=\"vaccinations without needles\">vaccinations without needles<\/a> made me smile.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s a little bit early to get my hopes up, but the idea that my doctor could just stick a patch on my arm to make sure I get all the vaccine I need sounds wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>The way the patch is supposed to work is that the vaccine will permeate the skin carried through a protein that will deliver the vaccine. That sounds way less painful to me than having a needle jabbed in my arm.<\/p>\n<p>With all the <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.usa.gov\/cgi-bin\/gsa_ict.cfg\/php\/enduser\/std_adp.php?p_faqid=5891&amp;p_created=1109773037&amp;p_sid=QA3OQOYj&amp;p_accessibility=0&amp;p_redirect=&amp;p_lva=&amp;p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MTE3LDExNyZwX3Byb2RzPTAmcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PXZhY2NpbmF0aW9ucw**&amp;p_li=&amp;p_topview=1\" title=\"vaccines\">vaccines<\/a> we need to get as little kids, this would have been such a great option. My parents would have had to deal with a lot fewer tears and probably a lot less stress.<\/p>\n<p>Would you prefer having a needle-free option to get your shots or can you handle the needles better than me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needles are hands down one of the things I&#8217;m scared of most in the world. Anytime I need to get a shot or have blood drawn there&#8217;s a 50-50 chance I&#8217;ll pass out. I get all lightheaded and start to hyperventilate. It&#8217;s really not a pretty picture. So needless to say, the news that scientists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}